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Haiti earthquake: confusion at airport hampers aid effort
A leading aid group has complained of skewed priorities and a supply bottleneck at Haiti's US-controlled airport.
The Geneva-based aid group Medecins Sans Frontiers said: "There is little sign of significant aid distribution.
The "major difficulty," it said, was the bottleneck at the airport. It said a flight carrying its own inflatable hospital was denied landing clearance and was being trucked overland from Santo Domingo, almost 200 miles away in the Dominican Republic, delaying its arrival by 24 hours.
French, Brazilian and other officials had earlier complained about the airport's refusal to allow their supply planes to land. A World Food Program official told The New York Times that the Americans' priorities were out of sync, allowing too many US military flights and too few aid deliveries.